Select a basic nursing skill or activity or intervention that you have been performing in your placement. Your written work must show your understanding of the theory underpinned and must highlight your positive values, fairness and sensitivity to the person's needs. I will be discussing the process and method undertook ... Read More

Good Paper - The phenomenon of bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have had bipolar disorder. It is clear that in our society many ... Read More

- Very informative essay THE CAUSE, EFFECTS AND TREATMENT OF ACID ROCK DRAINAGE INTRODUCTION Imagine going fishing on a cool Autumn day, the trees are all different shades of orange, brown and red and the birds are singing their beautiful songs, but their is a serious problem because when you ... Read More

Tay-Sachs disease is named after Warren Tay and Bernard Sachs. In 1881, Tay, a British ophthalmologist, described a patient with a cherry-red spot on the retina of the eye. Sachs, a New York neurologist, provided the first description of the cellular changes in Tay-Sachs disease several years later. He also ... Read More

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD) is a disorder of the central nervous system that affects as many as one million Americans. Because it is not contagious and does not have to be reported by physicians, the incidence of the disease is often underestimated. PD may appear at any age, but ... Read More

Review of the chapter concerning getting old. Covers the historical periods views and treatment of old age. Has continuities and discontinuities with other historical periods, also what did I learn from it. Getting old is not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect are the result of someone's ... Read More

Ozonification in Water Treatment Report Ozone is nature's agent for cleaning and treating both air and water. That clean fresh smell in the air following a thunderstorm, the bright sky and brilliant colors of nature are due to ozone - created by lightning and the Sun's energy. Ozone is a ... Read More

Lupus, is a chronic, autoimmune disease, which causes inflammation of various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, and kidneys. The body's immune system normally makes proteins called antibodies to protect the body against viruses, bacteria and other foreign materials. These foreign materials are called antigens. In an autoimmune ... Read More

What it feels like to have ADD? Imagine living in a fast-moving kaleidoscope, where sounds, images, and thoughts are constantly shifting. Feeling easily bored, yet helpless to keep your mind on tasks you need to complete. Distracted by unimportant sights and sounds, your mind drives you from one thought or ... Read More

Each year, nearly 27,000 adults and more than 2,000 children in the United States learn that they have a disease called leukemia. Leukemia is a type of cancer. Cancer is a group of more than 100 diseases that have two important characteristics in common. One of those is that certain ... Read More

Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseCrohn's Disease Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's Disease but may be referred to as colitis, enteritis, ileitis, and proctitis. Ulcerative colitis causes ... Read More

Heart valves can have two main things wrong with them. Regurgitation is when the valve does not close completely. This causes the blood to flow backward instead of forward through the valve. Another major problem is stenosis, when the valve opening becomes narrowed or does not form properly, inhibiting the ... Read More

After examining the criminal justice system it is evident that gender plays a great part in the treatment of women in jails. A comparison of women in the criminal justice system past and present illustrates issues in the past and the achievements that have been made. This paper focuses primarily ... Read More

Erectile Dysfunction Erectile dysfunction (ED) is defined as the consistent inability to attain and maintain penile erection sufficient to permit satisfactory sexual intercourse. Erectile dysfunction affects as many as 30 million men in the United States. The cause may be vascular, neurogenic, hormonal, drug-related, psychogenic, or a combination. Fortunately, several ... Read More

EBOLA VIRUS Ebola virus, a member of the Filoviridae, burst from obscurity with spectacular outbreaks of severe, haemorrhagic fever. It was first associated with an outbreak of 318 cases and a case-fatality rate of 90 in Zaire and caused 150 deaths among 250 cases in Sudan. Smaller outbreaks continue to ... Read More

Introduction Down syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality. It is the most frequent form of mental retardation and is characterised by well-defined, distinctive phenotypic features and natural history. An error in cell development results in forty-seven chromosomes rather than the usual forty-six. There are three major types of Down syndrome. About ... Read More

Compare and contrast the western idea of medical treatment with Ch'i and Chinese healing. Western medical treatment is tremendously different from Chinese medical treatment isn several ways. First of all, the Chinese use inductive and synthetic methods, while western medicine uses reductive and analytical methods. This can be seen in ... Read More

Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia Nervosa is an illness that mainly affects adolescent girls, but it can also occur in boys. People with anorexia are obsessed with being thin. The most common features are loss of weight and change in their behaviour. The weight loss may become severe and life threatening. There ... Read More

I On April 28, 2004 CBS's 60 Minutes aired photos depicting prisoner abuse in Iraq. These photographs illustrate US military personnel partaking in cruel and disgraceful treatment of Iraqi prisoners. During a speech at the Pentagon on May 10, 2004, while addressing the issue at of dereliction of duty among ... Read More

The Ebola Virus Cause of Disorder Ebola is a virus and part of the negative-stranded RNA family known as filovirus. It was discovered in 1976 in Africa and was named after a river in Zaire. When the virus is looked at under an electron microscope the filoviridae appear as being ... Read More

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. Dementia is the loss of intellectual and social abilities severe enough to interfere with daily functioning. It occurs in people with Alzheimer's disease because healthy brain tissue degenerates, causing a decline in memory and mental abilities. More than 4 million Americans ... Read More

Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathyIntroductionOver the past two centuries the clinical characteristics and the patterns associated with psychopathic personality disorder have been formulated. As a result, clinicians have come up with various notions, serving as designators of a varied collection of behaviors which are not common, but viewed as repugnant ... Read More

Celiac Disease is just a fad diet and shouldnt be taken seriously. I have heard this so many time since being diagnosed almost two years ago. But to a person who is diagnosed with Celiac Disease and truly has it should take this diagnosis very seriously since the disease causes ... Read More

The family in Flannery OConnors A Good Man Is Hard To Find is not depicted in a very good light towards each other or more so the grandmother. Bailey and his wife dont say much to interact with each other but they do ignore and sometimes shun the grandmother. Their ... Read More

Delirium is an acute onset of fluctuating confusion manifested by a decrease in focus, attention, and cognition (Foster et al., 2011). Research by Ijkema, Langelaan, Steeg, Wagner (2014) finds that delirium is associated with a poor prognosis. Delirium negatively affects functional outcomes and mortality. Research findings by Schofield, Tolson, Fleming, ... Read More

AbstractBy using bacterial conjugation method to perform an experiment that positively influences the genetic makeup of bacteria Escherichia coli, the donor was mixed to the recipient, then the mixture incubated for 30 minutes. After that, transferred the mixture into two sterile water blanks and removed them into two agar plates, ... Read More

Feeling anxious is considered as normal from time to time this iscommon if an individual face a stressful life. However, the difference isattached on the severity of the feelings and on how the feelings affect theday-to-day activities of the individual. If the feelings are severe, thenthis could a signal of ... Read More

Throughout recent years, the rates of childhood obesity have risen exponentially to the degree that it is now regarded as a global epidemic which proposes serious medical as well as financial challenges 1. As cited by the Institute of Medicine 2, since 1970, the rates of childhood obesity in the ... Read More

Pontiac fever is a mild-flu sickness which is caused by Legionellae bacteria. This disease is equally effecting both previously healthy and new individuals. The symptoms and signs of Pontiac fever include sickness, fever, headache and muscles pain. It has been observed that Legionnaires' accompanies pneumonia but Pontiac fever does not. ... Read More